A once-in-1,000-year flooding event has placed central U.S. communities on black alert. Discover the rainfall impact, river ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.

NASA and other global space scientists keep a close eye on asteroids known as near-Earth objects (NEOs). These are comets or ...

About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, along with around 70% of all life in the oceans. The impact left behind a massive crater under what is now ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...

An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a small possibility of Earth impact, but refined ...

The extinction of dinosaurs remains one of the greatest topics in natural history. A new study challenges the idea that they were already weakened before the devastating impact. The study is based on ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life return.

Administration policies can impact the stock market in many ways Peter Gratton, M.A.P.P., Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing ...

The usual video package recapping the previous week’s show airs to get things started. The show then settles inside the Impact Zone in St. Joseph, MO., where Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt welcome ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

It prepares comprehensive impact hazard assessments for the space agency’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington. This is how astronomers learned about the two ...